44 Transactions. 
The next interesting deviation of type is represented on a small 
piece of rock close to the road and a few yards west of Low 
Milton Cottage. It is shown on Pl. VII. Fig. 2. The upper 
portion of this rock having been well under the turf, this cutting 
of a single cup and ring is more than usually deep and distinct. 
They have evidently, when fresh cut, been a good inch deep. 
The serpentine groove which comes out of the ring is also at its 
upper end very clear, but, as it bends down to the ring below and 
enters its cup, it becomes almost hypothetical. At six inches to 
the left of this lower cup is a third cup, also obscure. I do not 
find any trace of the prolongation of the groove towards this 
third cup. 
Near the farm of Milton, and not far from the remains of a 
Fort, there are innumerable surfaces of the whinstone exposed— 
some nearly flat. On the flattest of them all I found the design 
shown in Pl. VII, Fig. 1. It is remarkable for the perfect 
precision of its circles, the straightness with which its cups lie in 
a line, and the curiously short lip of the largest ring. They are 
carved in almost, if not quite, a due N. and S. line. There is 
something, not only in these details, but in the size, shape, and 
appearance of the surface of this rock, not a little suggestive of 
the lid of a kist-vaen. The following are the dimensions :— 
Greatest length of stone ioe ads 4 feet 6 inches. 
y width us ae See De we OO" ee 
Diameter of largest ring sae te De, 
ne Pe cup Pon He 34, 
a of smaller ring ait oe OF es 
35 as cup nit So Lae ss 3 
These Milton fields contain then at least 42 cups and 44 rings, 
distributed over a total of seven groupings or “localities.” I 
have little doubt that more yet remain to be discovered. Some 
of the most remarkable of these Petroglyphs were those found by 
Mr E. A. Hornel and myself on the 23d of February, 1887, in 
the neighbourhood of Old Galtway, Knockshinnie, and Balmae. 
At High Banks, by the kindness of Mr Rigg, we were shown, 
first of all, a surface of whinstone upon which we could trace an 
elaborate design composed of central cups and rings of cups, or 
cupped circles. This arrangement of a cup surrounded by a ring 
of cups, which, to us, seemed a new fact in this study, would 
appear to be not so rare, for Sir J. Simpson says—‘On the 
Rowtin Lynn Rock (Northumberland) is an example (the only 
